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CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Plot grid vs timeline vs mind map

Plot Grid vs Timeline vs Mind Map

Contents 01A grid answers where a thread went quiet 02A timeline answers when, not in what order you tell it 03A mind map is for the stage before there is an order 04Choose by the question you cannot currently answer 05Keeping…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

The other wrong picture is the biography: the wound at eleven, the father who never said it back, the reason she can't use the word love in a sentence.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Scrivener migration

Moving a novel out of Scrivener, safely

Open the unzipped copy in Scrivener and confirm it is your book: the right chapters, the right word count, your most recent day's writing present at the end of it.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

This is the question the category is organised to stop you asking, because most writing software is built around one job and priced as though it were the whole job.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Daily › Archive

Creative Writing Prompts & Exercises Archive

These short fiction writing exercises practise character development, dialogue, plot and more. Every exercise has a permanent page with Muse's hint and helpful craft reading.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump

Exposition without the infodump

, I must ask the Count about these superstitions)" is a joke and a piece of dread in the same eleven words, and it only works because the reader is holding information the narrator isn't.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Create a story bible

The story bible you'll actually use

The same thing happened at the far end of the scale: the continuity apparatus behind The Wheel of Time (eventually four million words of notes and a published companion volume)

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Dialogue and subtext

How to fix on-the-nose dialogue

The problem is not accuracy: it is that a line whose meaning is fully contained in its words leaves the reader with nothing to work out, and working things out is most of what reading fiction consists of.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Ai without losing authorship

Using AI for Fiction Without Losing Authorship

That is the arrangement I would want, but do not take my word for the boundary of a tool you are trusting with a novel. Watch the network traffic, or ask a direct question and accept nothing but a direct answer.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › First pages

First pages: what makes an agent stop reading

Tension Cal counted the till twice, because the second count was the one he would have to say out loud to his brother. One small act, no danger at all, and already there is a shortfall, a brother, and a conversation coming that…